I'm not a politician. I'm not a spy. I'm just a normal guy. So, that's not problem for me and i will continue to use the same products despite of all rumors (true or not). Until they start using censorship like some other products/enterprises, it's all OK for me. The only problem i see in Kaspersky, is that they have a high price for me, so i prefer Emsisoft instead. I'm testing Yandex eMail too and if it works ok i will close my Google accounts and use Yandex instead...
"Is Kaspersky a Red Herring ?" The question was answered 13 years ago: "Kaspersky Lab among top companies in 2005 Red Herring 100 Europe awards Red Herring announced that Kaspersky Lab is a recipient of Red Herring 100 Europe, a selection of the 100 private companies in Europe and Israel that play a leading role in innovation and technology..." https://www.kaspersky.com/about/pre...mpanies-in-2005-red-herring-100-europe-awards
"..Administration Admits It Cribbed From Forbes Magazine To Create “Oligarch List” The striking similarity between a newly released Treasury Department report of Russian oligarchs and a 2017 list of wealthy Russians published in Forbes magazine is no coincidence. On Tuesday, a Treasury Department spokesperson confirmed to BuzzFeed News that the unclassified annex of the report was derived from Forbes’ ranking of the “200 richest businessmen in Russia 2017... '...Given that it’s couched in neutral terms — i.e., oligarchs are just the individuals who meet the net worth threshold of $1 billion rather than individuals who are suspected of being involved in corrupt practices'...” https://www.buzzfeed.com/johnhudson...es-magazine-to?utm_term=.hbPRvxGQ0#.fiJ4AlqQN
They just cant win can they, when they were commies that was bad, when they become billionaire capitalists that´s bad too lol...
Yes it was breaking news over here. It's just a bit hard to believe that Cozy Bear were hacked themselves, I wonder how it was done. I'm guessing they needed to use some RAT. I wouldn't be surprised if Kaspersky was hacked in the same way.
Kaspersky Lab Plots Swiss Data Centre To Allay Russia Concerns https://www.silicon.co.uk/cloud/datacenter/kaspersky-lab-swiss-data-centre-230401
Fake, just about like everything now on the INTERNET. Just to stir the pot. Cover your heads and run for the hills.
Justice Department seeks dismissal of Kaspersky lawsuit, court documents show https://www.cyberscoop.com/justice-...issal-kaspersky-lawsuit-court-documents-show/
This brings to mind an old issue. Ever download software that might have a civil penalty if you get caught downloading it? Many antivirus products are by default set to scan within archives. Ever had a crack or a patch that you had fully testing and knew was good only to have an A/V client register on it? So, yeah, I get the choose your poison thing. @mirimir - due largely to your influence I have picked up an old piece of junk system with two Intel nicks to embark upon a PFSene project. Any advise as I go headlong into this?
Yeah, that's the downside of A/V. Some do admit that they will share information about what they see on your system. pfSense is not a resource hog. My perimeter firewall/router is an old Atom box! But then, I don't run a VPN client on it. To get decent VPN throughput, you want more CPU power. Also, Intel server NICs have their own CPUs. Otherwise NICs use the system CPU. And for best VPN throughput, say over 50 Mbps, it's best to have a crypto coprocessor.
Just to add, check whether the nics are supported and will support VLANs if that's important to you. I have an Atom 4-core and that's typically between 3-7% CPU. It makes sense to throw a bit of RAM at it, particularly if you want to run things like pfblockerng and Squid. System reliability is outstanding, current uptime is 4 months and that halt was planned. No memory leaks apparent. I'd advise getting a couple of usb sticks for the system, which helps in case of failed update - I had a problem last time the kernel changed, the update messed with some device identifiers so the system wouldn't boot. Obviously backing up config is prudent!
Some do. And some of those actually work. It's best to setup your own. The basic idea is simple. Only traffic with the VPN server(s) is allowed on the LAN interface. All outgoing traffic, and established incoming traffic, is allowed on the VPN interface. But you generally must use IP addresses for VPN servers, not hostnames, because the host can't do DNS lookups, except through the VPN. I suppose that you could add VPN servers to the hosts file.
I am assuming your machine is heavy on the package side. May I inquire how much RAM you are using? I've had a duo port server nic laying around extra from a previous project. I've found the exact card on Amazon. What do you think? https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BMXME8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Thanks ...
I only have 8G at this point, though there's plenty of expansion room. I've tested with pfblockerng/dnsbl and Squid, but am not running squid in production. RAM is a small part of the system budget though, and you could verify requirements with a VM (which I'd recommend anyway for learning and development purposes - and production purposes for that matter!). I have a 4 core Atom C2558 SoC with 4x C2000 Intel 1354 Nics, seen as igb. This does AES-NI and the Nics do work with Vlan. There are some j1900 boards available, but these don't do aes-ni and are rubbish on io. Sadly, my C2000 is vulnerable to failure after a couple of years due to design fault - Intel just gives and gives. The build is mAtx in a mini-chassis but is silent. Virtually empty case! Intel NICs are preferred over realtek (usually built-in), and I looked back in the day at the pro/1000pt dual port nics which appeared to be compatible from the pfsense forum. I would likely have used the pro/1000VT quad-port if I were expanding physical ports. Nominally the pro/1000 pt is recognised as em by freeBSD , though I would check on the pfsense forums to confirm. The freeBsd version is now 11.1 which improves driver support.
"Twitter Bans Kaspersky Labs Ads Over Alleged Ties to Russian Intelligence Citing accusations of ties between Kaspersky Labs and Russian intelligence, Twitter has moved to ban the Moscow-based security and antivirus provider from continuing to advertise on its platform... In a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Friday, CEO Eugene Kaspersky expressed he was dumbfounded by the decision... Kaspersky said it plans to donate its Twitter advertising budget to the digital advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation." https://gizmodo.com/twitter-bans-kaspersky-labs-ads-over-alleged-ties-to-ru-1825427836
I'm sure Eugene Kaspersky knows what this is really all about. It is just sad that Kaspersky is taking the brunt of it but I hope those with Intelligence will see it for what it is because if we are to take Twitter at face value and assume they really believe the Kaspersky allegations are true and that is their motivation for this action against them, then we must also have to believe Twitter entirely missed the Snowden documents which are a lot more than just unproven allegations against several other companies that really did collaberate with government Intelligence services. IMO this action should raise more questions about Twitter, than it does about Kaspersky, specifically, who are THEY collaborating with? What kind of regime would punish the accused without any proof of guilt?
It is sad to see Kaspersky Lab being punished for being actually competent against Nation-State Threats and malwares in general. They are one of the few security vendors that do their job properly, most vendors are "amateurs" compared to Kaspersky.
Yes, if you look at the list of major malware's Kaspersky were the first to identify, it is impressive. Of course any regime that creates and proliferates malware itself for geopolitical purposes might have a problem with that...
Thought that this was worth sharing. https://malwaretips.com/threads/kaspersky-is-bad-hurry-switch-to-escan-av.81413/page-4#post-730149
"Dutch government to phase out use of Kaspersky anti-virus software AMSTERDAM, May 14 (Reuters) - The Dutch government said on Monday it had decided to phase out the use of anti-virus software made by Kaspersky Labs “as a precautionary measure” and was advising companies that safeguard vital services to do the same..." https://www.reuters.com/article/cyb...ky-anti-virus-software-idUSA5N1O602P?rpc=401&
Kaspersky to Move Data of Most Users From Russia to Switzerland May 15, 2018 https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...ata-of-most-users-from-russia-to-switzerland/
"U.S. Government Can’t Get Controversial Kaspersky Lab Software Off Its Networks The law says American agencies must eliminate the use of Kaspersky Lab software by October. U.S. officials say that’s impossible—it’s embedded too deep in our infrastructure Federal agencies are so far unable to comply with a law banning Kaspersky Lab software from U.S. government networks by October, The Daily Beast has learned. Multiple divisions of the U.S. government are confronting the reality that code written by the Moscow-based security company is embedded deep within American infrastructure, in routers, firewalls, and other hardware—and nobody is certain how to get rid of it..." https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclu...persky-lab-software-off-its-networks?ref=home
